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- My name is Airman First Class Alexander Molino,

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I'm a Weather Forecaster Apprentice

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^at the 27 Special Operations Support Squadron

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^in Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico.

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Daily operations, we just create forecasts that are

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tendered to base operations, flight operations,

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as well as other contingency operations from base to base.

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We provide the whole base with any sort of weather support

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that they'll ever need.

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Weathers' number one priority

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is to support the mission of AFSOC.

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And what we do is extremely important,

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because if we don't get the right information out there,

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if the pilots don't have the right information,

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then we potentially put lives at risk.

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My job is definitely being confident

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in what we're putting out.

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'Cuz weather is not predictable whatsoever.

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We have to be able to put a recipe together

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when a lot of ingredients are missing,

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and we have to figure out what these ingredients will do

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and what the outcome's gonna be,

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in a very unpredictable situation.

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So we're looking at

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people asking us what's gonna happen three days from now

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in an area of just a couple of square miles,

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and we have to be pinpoint accurate with our forecast.

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So it's very, very, very challenging sometimes.

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A very rewarding career field.

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You have a direct line to Mission Operations.

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The mission can't happen

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if there's not weather support out there.